Africa / Democratic Republic of the Congo · Science & Health

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo surpasses 8,000 cases

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 44
Regions: 5
Countries: 32
Languages: 14

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Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 28 Sept, 05:52 UTC

The earliest of 14 English reports

Read it also in Português (6) · +12 languages

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Infobae, 27 Sept, 12:01 UTC.
Second country: Portugal, with RTP.
Second region: Europe, with RTP.
Fastest hour: +8 outlets from 28 Sept, 09:42 UTC.
Last article: 44 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 32 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%18%43%14%

Africa 6 outlets · 5 countries · 14%
Americas 8 outlets · 6 countries · 18%
Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 4 countries · 11%
Europe 19 outlets · 12 countries · 43%
Middle East 6 outlets · 5 countries · 14%

First movers

Infobae 27 Sept, 12:01 UTC
RTP +2h 29m
Público +2h 34m
Observador +2h 53m
G1 +7h 41m

Last to join

Al Ittihad 29 Sept, 07:31 UTC
China News Service 29 Sept, 07:13 UTC
Frankfurter Allgemeine 29 Sept, 06:40 UTC
The Japan Times 29 Sept, 05:24 UTC
Der Standard 29 Sept, 05:09 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 44 outlets in 32 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 44 outlets, 5 state-owned, 5 public-service, 34 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 4: China, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan. Europe 12: Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Infobae, 27 Sept 2026, 12:01 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 13:10 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 11:54 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by 'Eu tinha a sensação de que ia morrer': sobreviventes relatam impacto da epidemia de ebola no Congo; Congo Ebola outbreak exceeds 8,000 confirmed cases. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

27 Sept 2026 157 4.23 6 4 6 4 3.3

28 Sept 2026 21 37.66 35 28 34 28 3.3

29 Sept 2026 70 16.63 44 32 11 9 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 27 Sept, 13:10 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 11:54 UTC

Covered by 44 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
27 Sept 2026	157	4.23	6	4	6	4	3.3
28 Sept 2026	21	37.66	35	28	34	28	3.3
29 Sept 2026	70	16.63	44	32	11	9	3.3 → 4.0

Covered by 44 outlets

Africa 6 outlets

Americas 8 outlets

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

Europe 19 outlets

Middle East 6 outlets